I liked the flavor of that dressing, but did find it way too thin. I'm not too concerned at the moment about 'reducing', so I added peanut butter to thicken it up. Next time, I will just use peanut butter and not whole peanuts, because they were kind of gritty in all that water.

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This is the first recipe book I've bought twice, I had it and wasn't really feeling it so passed it on, but then read this thread (it's taken me 5 days to read the whole thing!) and I have bought it again.

Having chickpea piccata and caulipots for tea tonight (and for the next few nights as I only cook for me so it had better be good!)

There are so many things I want to try I'm going to set a challenge of one recipe a week so I can plough through to find my favourites.

Trattoria pasta with sun-dried tomato walnut vinaigrette-omitted the fennel in the dressing but really liked this-I also omitted the pasta to make this a white bean and arugula salad-yum!

Chipotle Brussels and Bean Chili-I subbed kabocha squash for the sweet potatoes and ended up adding another 15 oz can of diced tomatoes since it was not soupy enough-I don't think I liked it as much as others have raved about it

Chipotle Brussels and Bean Chili-I subbed kabocha squash for the sweet potatoes and ended up adding another 15 oz can of diced tomatoes since it was not soupy enough-I don't think I liked it as much as others have raved about it

I wasn't a fan of that recipe, surprisingly. I love all the separate components so was sure it would be a winner but I found it strangely bland. I ended up throwing some away cause I just couldn't face eating the leftovers :(

i had the bean pasta spinach thingie (cant remember the name right now) and found it a bit bland. also had the 40 garlic chickpeas which I didnt like, but it might have been that something was off. It just tasted a bit "weird", so maybe it was my ingredients.

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Just made 4 of the dressings from this book for salad I'm serving for a party. Each one is more delicious than the last! Seriously, I love them all.

- Caesar Chavez Dressing: does not taste exactly as I remember caesar tasting, but I think it's even better! Love the brininess of the capers.- Peanut Lime Dragon Dressing: perfect peanut dressing, though as others have said here I may thicken it more next time. Great kick from the Sriracha.- Romesco Dressing: if I absolutely had to pick a favorite, this may be it. I think I could just drink this stuff straight. It's almost creamy from the almonds, and there's a note of kinda cheesiness to it that reminds me of pizza or something. Super duper addictive.- Orange Sesame Vinaigrette: yummy, bright, tangy dressing that benefits from the balance of nutty and citrusy. I would imagine this could be great on a pasta salad.

Beethecookie, if you liked the other dressings you have to try the goddess one too! That is my go to salad dressing when I need something not specific, and I also use it as a veggie dip for snacks. I totally agree with allularpunk - the dressings along with the bowl suggestions in the back of the book totally opened up my eyes and made transitioning the dairy out of my diet much easier.

Chipotle Brussels and Bean Chili-I subbed kabocha squash for the sweet potatoes and ended up adding another 15 oz can of diced tomatoes since it was not soupy enough-I don't think I liked it as much as others have raved about it

I wasn't a fan of that recipe, surprisingly. I love all the separate components so was sure it would be a winner but I found it strangely bland. I ended up throwing some away cause I just couldn't face eating the leftovers :(

Glad I am not the only one! I thought I would like it too but alas not so much... I gave it to Rob to polish off the leftovers. ;)

Beethecookie, if you liked the other dressings you have to try the goddess one too! That is my go to salad dressing when I need something not specific, and I also use it as a veggie dip for snacks. I totally agree with allularpunk - the dressings along with the bowl suggestions in the back of the book totally opened up my eyes and made transitioning the dairy out of my diet much easier.

Ooh will do the goddess dressing now, have fallen into a habit of only making the Sanctuary!

Beethecookie, if you liked the other dressings you have to try the goddess one too! That is my go to salad dressing when I need something not specific, and I also use it as a veggie dip for snacks. I totally agree with allularpunk - the dressings along with the bowl suggestions in the back of the book totally opened up my eyes and made transitioning the dairy out of my diet much easier.

Ooh will do the goddess dressing now, have fallen into a habit of only making the Sanctuary!

Yeah, I was eyeing the goddess dressing when I was looking through, but I already have a very similar dressing in my fridge (the bottled kind) and was looking for ones that were different from what I had on hand. It did look wonderful, so I need to throw a bookmark in there and make that once the others are all used up.

Oh man, I can't believe it took me this long to make 40 clove garlic chickpeas with broccoli. I made it last night and honestly I was perplexed with how much I loved it and how stupid-easy the recipe was. I declare this is going into the rotation! Served it with some basmati rice, sriracha and a little soy sauce.

Oh man, I can't believe it took me this long to make 40 clove garlic chickpeas with broccoli. I made it last night and honestly I was perplexed with how much I loved it and how stupid-easy the recipe was. I declare this is going into the rotation! Served it with some basmati rice, sriracha and a little soy sauce.

Oh yes, this recipe rocks. I've been doing the spring cookbook challenge and haven't cooked from AFR for 2 weeks. But now I must have this for dinner.